If the taxpayers are going to take over the cost of medical care, they have to pay what it takes. Maybe nationalizing the health care system wasn't such a bright idea, after all!
> they have to pay what it takes.
That's the4 question, though. One major source fo the rising cost of healthcare is that medical science allows people to live today who would have died yesterday... but that requires neato new expensive technology.
Consider this hypothetical: ten years from new, the tech is available to revive to verifiable life someone who has been shot in the head with a twelve guage. They'll be drolling, screaming morons, but alive nonetheless. Price tag: fifty million to turn 'em back on, and a grand a day for life support.
What to do?